Free spirits, bright colors, and quirky music could easily describe any San Francisco scene, but nothing fit that description better than a crowd of young San Franciscans gathered for a dance party before heading to work on a recent morning.

The Star Trek franchise has done a lot of amazing things for our society by inspiring people to think of ways to advance technology, such as smartphones, tablets, and warp drives. It’s even inspired folk to become astronauts.

VentureBeat’s seventh annual MobileBeat event just wrapped up, and we brought VB’s mobile expert Devindra Hardawar into the studio to tell us what the mobile tech industry is all hot and bothered about.

Newzoo ranked the participating World Cup countries according to how much gamers spend. Let’s put it this way: U.S. soccer fans would be ecstatic if the results of the actual competition mirrored global gamer finances.

MayDay.us, the super PAC set up to help pro-campaign finance reform congressional candidates win the 2016 elections, has cleared nearly $1.5 million in crowdfunding since launching in early May, according to the super PAC’s website.